[en] A scientific approach on the relations between media and business world can not be reduced to statements of intent by journalists on the presumed autonomy of their sphere of activities against the “powers of money”, to the description of secretive networks involving the media elite – too instrumentalist vision of the question – or to the Anglo-Saxon literature both ultra-holistic and hyperindividualistic devoted to Media Moguls and Tycoons. The renewal of this issue requires, in contrast, a theoretical break with these psychological and moralistic representations of social practices. The critical sociology of media companies’ directors appears to be, in this regard, a particularly valuable input to rethink the links between information, economic power and society, by avoiding the pitfall of some form of academicism in social sciences.